Format:
xiv, 216 Seiten
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Illustrationen
Edition:
Revised edition
ISBN:
9781477323731
Series Statement:
Jack and Doris Smothers series in Texas history, life, and culture
Content:
Preface to the revised edition -- Part one. Leader at last. Launching a movement -- Blackout in Houston -- Railroads, baseball, and the color line -- "I was going places" -- Part two. A boy from Galveston and San Augustine. Uphome -- Rabbit returns -- Driving Mr. Gus -- Part three. Wandering and return. "They got me, but they can't forget me": a mad odyssey -- Drew and me: recovering separate selves
Content:
"In 1984, Thomas Cole met Eldrewey Stearns in a Galveston psychiatric hospital. Stearns, a fifty-two-year-old Black man, complained that although he felt very important, no one understood him. Over the course of the next decade, Cole and Stearns, in a tumultuous and often painful collaboration, recovered Stearns's life before his slide into mental illness-as a young boy in Galveston and San Augustine and as a civil rights leader and lawyer who sparked Houston's desegregation movement between 1959 and 1963"--
Note:
First published in 1997 as: No color is my kind: the life of Eldrewey Stearns and the integration of Houston
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781477323748
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781477323755
Language:
English
Keywords:
Stearns, Eldrewey 1931-2020
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Houston, Tex.
;
Schwarze
;
Bürgerrechtsbewegung
;
Geschichte
;
Biografie
